Charles Marion Russell

inscribed CM Russell and with the artist’s skull insignia (on the base); inscribed with the foundry mark Roman Bronze Works.N.Y. (along the base)

height: 4 ⅞ in.  (12.4 cm.)

The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana

The Coeur D’Alene Art Auction, Reno, 21 July 2012, lot 162

Private Collection, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Private Collection, Santa Fe

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Antony Anderson, “Art and Artists,” Los Angeles Times, 27 March 1921, another cast mentioned 

Antony Anderson, “Art and Artists,” Los Angeles Times, 3 April 1921, another cast mentioned 

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Kanst Art Galleries, Paintings, Models, and Bronzes, 1921, another cast mentioned 

M.R.F. Valle, “Famed Painter of Western Scenes Is Found to Be Sculptor of Ability, Picturing Incidents in Plains Life” Rocky Mountain News, 4 December 1921, another cast mentioned 

Antony Anderson, “Of Art and Artists,” Los Angeles Times, 26 March 1922, another cast mentioned 

Exh. Cat. Los Angeles, Kanst Art Galleries, Paintings and Bronzes, 1922, another cast mentioned 

Exh. Cat., Santa Barbara School of the Arts; Los Angeles, The Biltmore Salon; New York, Arthur H. Harlow & Company and Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Special Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes by Charles M. Russell, 1923, no. 4 (Santa Barbara), no. 6 (Los Angeles), n.n. (New York) and no. 19 (Washington, D.C.), another cast mentioned 

Exh. Cat., Art League of Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, The Biltmore Salon, The First Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Charles Marion Russell, ‘Painter of the West’, 1927, no. 54 (Santa Barbara) and no. 46 (Los Angeles), another cast mentioned 

Exh. Cat., New York, Grand Central Art Galleries and Boston, Robert C. Vose Galleries, Charles Marion Russell, ‘Painter of the West’, 1928, no. 39 (New York) and no. 35 (Boston), another cast mentioned

Loring Holmes Dodd, “Art Treasures Await Travellers at Grand Central Station, New York,” Worcester Evening Post, 7 January 1938, another cast mentioned

Karl Yost, Charles M. Russell, The Cowboy Artist: A Bibliography, Pasadena, 1948, p. 173, another cast mentioned

Homer E. Britzman and Lonnie Hull, Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles 1949, p. 117, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Fort Worth Art Association, Bronzes by Charles M. Russell, 1950, no. 27, another cast mentioned

“State Has Only Few Weeks Les to Acquire Mackay Russell Art,” Great Falls Tribune, 14 September 1952, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Great Falls, Trigg-Russell Memorial Gallery, Bronzes of C. M. Russell, 1957, no. 25, another cast mentioned

“The American Scene Presents the Works of C. M. Russell in the Gilcrease Institute of American History,” American Scene, vol. 3, 1960, p. 22, another cast mentioned

Philip Gurney, “Russell’s Art Records Last Days of Old West,” South Omaha Sun, 4 August 1960, illustration of another cast (titled Wolf and Steer’s Skull)

Exh. Cat., Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Inaugural Exhibition, 1961, n.p., another cast mentioned

C.M. Russell Bronzes from the McNair Collection, New York, 1962, pp. 200-01, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Helena, Montana Historical Society, The Works of Charles Marion Russell in the Permanent Collection of the Historical Society of Montana, 1962, p. 16, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Helena, Montana Historical Society, C. M. Russell and His Bronze Masterpieces of the Old Frontier, 1962-63, no. 79, illustration of another cast

“C. M. Russell’s Bronze Masterpieces of the Old Frontier,” Montana The Magazine of Western History, vol. 13, January 1963, no. 33, illustration of another cast

Michael S. Kennedy, ed., Cowboys and Cattlemen, New York, 1964, p. 284, illustration of another cast

Frederic G. Renner, Charles M. Russell: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon G. Carter Collection, Austin and London, 1966, p. 113, illustration of another cast

Chan Berger, “Montana Historical Society Presents C. M. Russell,” Western Horseman, vol. 31, December 1966, p. 111, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Alberta, Edmonton Art Gallery and Columbus, Ohio State University, Remington/Russell Exhibition, 1967, another cast mentioned 

Karl Yost and Frederic G. Renner, A Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles M Russell, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1971, pp. 30, 38, 53, 55, 57, 66, 94, 107, 120, 133-34, another cast mentioned 

Earl C. Adams, “The Most Valuable Russell Bronzes,” Persimmon Hill, vol. 3, p. 60, Summer 1973, illustration of another cast

Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 166 and 415, another cast mentioned

Frederic G. Renner, Charles M. Russell: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum, New York, 1974, p. 83, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., College Station, Texas A&M University, Remington/Russell Exhibition, 1976, another cast mentioned

Exh. Cat., Wichita, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, The American Frontier: The Saga of Westward Expansion, 1977, another cast mentioned

R. W. Norton Foundation, ed., Charles M. Russell (1864-1926): Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Collection of the R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1979, p. 110, illustration of another cast